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- Subject: "One Bread, One Body", Dec. 25
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- Friday, December 25, 1992
- Birth of Jesus
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- Isaiah 9:1-6 Psalm 96
- Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:11-14
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- HAVING RELATIVES OVER FOR CHRISTMAS
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- "There was no room for them in the place where travelers lodged." --Luke 2:7
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- The innkeeper's rejection of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus has made us more aware of
- the cruel rejection of the Lord which occurred throughout His life, culminated
- in Calvary, and continues even to this Christmas day. "To His own He came,
- yet His own did not accept Him" (Jn 1:11).
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- The rejection of Jesus may have been worse than we think because He may have
- been rejected not by an innkeeper, but by His own relatives. The Bible says
- "there was no room for them in the place where travelers lodged" (Lk 2:7).
- This may not have been an inn but what we would call a "guest room." Even
- to the present day the peasants of the Middle East have a part of their home
- in which they shelter their animals for the night. The place where travelers
- lodged would be the other part of the house. For a pregnant woman to be
- forced to have her baby in the part of the house with the animals is more
- than the insensitivity of an innkeeper, but the cruelty of family members.
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- Christmas is especially for the rejected, even those rejected by family.
- Christmas is a time of forgiving enemies, having mercy on those who have
- hurt us, and loving unconditionally those who have rejected us.
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- Prayer: Jesus, may I not reject You by doing my will instead of Yours. On
- this Christmas Day, I give my life to You and accept the grace to forgive
- all who have hurt me.
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- Promise: "The grace of God has appeared, offering salvation to all men. It
- trains us to reject godless ways." --Ti 2:11-13
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- Praise: Alleluia! Christ our Savior is born! Alleluia!
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- From "One Bread, One Body", reproduced with permission.
- Nihil Obstat: Rev. Edward J. Gratsch
- Imprimatur: +Most Rev. James H. Garland, V.G.
- Archdiocese of Cincinnati, August 17, 1992.
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